Originally Posted by
TPAKyle
Currently on flight 66 which landed without event in Halifax. We have deplaned and are waiting for new equipment which should depart from JFK momentarily. Problem was oxygen bottle for the cockpit losing too much pressure to continue (went from 1400psi to 20psi). In the event of a decompression, there would have been no O2 for the pilot to fly the plane.
Flight aware shows the replacement plane (DL9966) as a Boeing 767-300 (twin-jet) H/B763/Q, SeatGuru shoes the 76Q as a domestic config with 30 domestic FC seats rather than 36 BE sleepers. If it is true that they are subbing a domestic equipped bird, there will be some mighty unhappy campers in BE.
Perhaps I am reading this wrong?
Welcome to FT, and thanks for posting since you were on the flight.
I doubt that is the case. Flightaware could've screwed up, and there are only 4 domestic 763s that I know of that are ETOPS certified. Those planes go to Hawaii and some domestic runs between DTW/ATL-SLC/LAS/LAX, etc. I don't think they'd be going to JFK unless there was an equip swap.
They probably had a spare a/c sitting at JFK that they could ferry to Halifax.